matt wessels

* Teaching students ages 6-16 (Reading) * Teaching Adult Speaking classes * Lesson planning for reading and speaking courses * Summer and winter course planning and execution

* Handling communications between NSL and the organizations involved with NSL student work placements. * Assisting the interns on issues regarding work-placements and helping them adjust to Washington, DC * Event planning and management * Coordinating events with embassies in Washington-DC

* Teach and Learn with Georgia is a government-funded program hiring volunteer English teachers from around the world to work in the public school system and enhance the English Language departments of those schools. * Teaching students ages 6-12 * Teaching special classes for adults (local teachers and doctors) and advanced High School students. * Assisting with English cultural events in the town (including an English Play endorsed by the former president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakasvhvili) and the development of the town's Cultural and Academic Center

* Department of Education (Curriculum Studies); and Department of History * Heading tutorial lectures for 200 * students * Grading essays and exams of 400 * students * Personal and Research Assistant to Dr. Chet Fransch * Translating and editing course materials (English and Afrikaans)

* The World Affairs Council is a "nonprofit, nonpartisan forum for the public to join leading foreign policy and international relations experts to discuss and debate global issues." * Conducting research for the permanent members of staff. * Organizing and executing special events for WAC-DC members.

* Confucius Institute at the University of Stellenbosch * General office management * Managing liaison events with foreign visitors from partner institutions in Europe and China * Planning and organizing events on campus

* Managing communication between Maties RAG and 46 University residences. * Managing a sub-committee of 60 people. * Managing a responsible drinking campaign for Stellenbosch University * Managing a secondhand academic bookstore * Organizing a gala-event for 500 people

Coursework: Philosophy of History, Historiography, Research Methodology, War and Society - Dissertation: A History of Afrikaner ideas of self-determination and the rise of the Network Society, c. 1993 – 2011.

Exchange Student to Antwerp University, Belgium September 2010 – February 2011 - Research conducted on Flemish Self-determination and cultural identity within the Network Society - Research Grant received from Vlaams Zuid-Afrikaanse Cultuurstichting

Majors: Political Science and History Minor: German Culture and Literature Summer School Course: Deutsch Erleben: An urban experience of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin, June/July 2009